Reversible bandage-case.



No. 692,503. Patented Feb. 4, I902.

S. BOTTOMLEY.

REVERSIBLE BANDAGE CASE.

(Application filed Apr. 26, 1898.)

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ATENT SAMUEL BOTTOMLEY, OF PROVIDENCE, RIIODE ISLAND.

REVERSIBLE BANDAGE CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 692,503, dated February4, 1902.

Application filed Apri126,1898.

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Be it known that I, SAMUEL BoTToMLEY, of Providence, in the county ofProvidence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Reversible Bandage-Cases and I hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification.

This invention has reference to an improvement in bandage-cases; and itconsists in the peculiar and novel construction of the case, by whichboth sides may be used in succession, as will be more fully set forthhereinafter.-

In the class of bandages to which this invention is applicable anabsorbent material, which may have absorbed moisture or medicated liquidor be used in the dry state to absorb pus or other discharges, isplaced, preferably, into a tubular textile fabric having large openingson one side and a closely woven or knit fabric on the other side, sothat fluid may be applied to or absorbed from the part to which it isapplied.

The object of this invention is to construct the case or receptacle forthe absorbent material so that both sides of the bandage may besuccessively used.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved bandage-case, showing thereversible cover connected at one edge to the tubular case. Fig. 2 is atransverse sectional view of the case.

In the drawings, A A indicate the central open-mesh portions of thefabric; B B, the opposite sides of the fabric, in which the threads areclosely packed, so as to form a practically impervious fabric; 0, astrip of fabric in which the threads are closely packed, so as to bepractically impervious to serum Serial No. 678,847. (No model.)

or similar fluid. The strip 0 is connected along one edge to the caseand may be folded over either side of the case, consisting of the twosides, having each the central portion A of open-mesh fabric andthe-closely-packed side strips B B.

The complete bandage-case, as shown in the drawings, may be produced byknitting or weaving. If woven, the covering-strip C may be made of oneor two ply. When used as a compress, the bandage may be first applied onone side. The moisture of the absorbent material in the bandage willreadily pass through the open meshes A A to the parts to which it isapplied, and the covering-strip 0 will protect the other side. Thebandage may then be reversed by placing the covering-strip C over theside first used and applying the other side to the part of the bodyaffected, or the reversible bandage may be used to absorb fluid first onone side and by reversing the covering-strip on the opposite side. Undermany circumstances the double use of the reversible bandage is a greatconvenience.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- In a bandage-case, the combination with a casinghaving two sides, the central portions A A which are formed of large,open meshes and the edges B B of closely-packed textile threads,of thereversible covering-strip 0 connected at one edge with the case; wherebythe covering-strip may cover one side when the other is in use and viceversa, as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

SAMUEL BOTTOMLEY. Witnesses:

B. M. SIMMs, J. A. MILLER, Jr.

